Luxemburg was pretty much the same as Belgium to ride through in the beginning, and then it got really hilly. I noticed that most of the country was clear cut hills and it was pretty sparsely populated. That makes it kind of a dismal country. The people spoke French just as in Belgium. I got my first experience of the stereotypical snappy french woman there though. I went into a bagel shop and bought a couple bagels and asked the woman if there was a bathroom around where I could fill up my water bottle and she pointed to a shiny door, so I walked back there and started to fill my water bottle up in the sink. Then she stormed in and started screaming at me in French which I didn't understand, so I quickly left with her still yelling at me. That was weird.

I rode across the country in one day and as I entered the city I was drafting behind a spandex biker and going quite fast. Not long after the guy broke off I started to climb up a hill to the left of a huge bridge spanning a big gorge. The center of the city was on the top of the hill. I locked up my bike and walked around the central pedestrian area looking for a place to pee. I found a public restroom where I had to pay a grumpy lady and it wasn't cheap. Then I bought a world map for twenty bucks which I found to be a lot.

I wasn't there long and rode just out of the city to a beautiful man made rowed forest with soft and smooth ground to camp. The next day I entered France.